Greek family of sculptors. Jacob [Yacoumis] Malakate (b Tinos, ?1805; d Munich, 1903) and his brother Frangiskos Malakate (b Tinos, ?1815; d Athens, 1914) were both self-taught, and in 1835 they opened the first sculpture workshop in Athens, the Hermoglypheion, in response to the increasing need for sculptural work for buildings and monuments in the recently founded Greek capital. Their commissions, from both Greek and foreign architects active in Athens, were mainly for decorative architectural sculpture, but also for funerary columns, reliefs, crosses and busts as well as for the restoration of antiquities. Their style remained faithful to the popular classicizing spirit of mid-19th-century Athens. Most of their surviving works are at the First Cemetery in Athens (e.g. Koumbaris tombstone, 1859).